Recipes

Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Duck Breast with Vanilla Brandy Sauce

Ingredients: 6 duck breasts, butterflied lengthwise, you may choose to skin them 2 apples (use your favorite variety), peeled and chapped into ...

New Vanilla Keiki (baby) Journey Begins

New Vanilla Keiki Vine's have arrived on the farm! These vines were cultivated for our farm using a fascinating process called Tissue Culture (Che...

Fire and Fearlessness

What an incredible past week it has been for us here on the Farm!On this past Friday (6/4) I (Ian) was working on the Farm when I began to smell s...

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Delicious Geography!

It is finally time to announce the title of the book I have co-authored with my father—Delicious Geography: From Place To Plate. Hooray!!! It has b...

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Aloha Friends….

It has been a long time since I wrote last. It is because so much has happened. Jim’s Dad (we all called him Grandpa, or Pop) went to be with his H...

Product Making With The Vanilla Boys

A Family Business…It’s not easy owning your own business, it’s hard work. It’s a battle day in and day out. Some people will say that owning your o...

What's the first thing you think of when you hear Vanilla…By Jim Reddekopp

It’s funny to think back for the first time I heard about vanilla. It had to be the thought of ice cream is as far back as I can remember. When I w...

New Babies Have Arrived!

There’s nothing quite like the feeling a proud parent experiences when their child is born. This will be the third time in my life that I’ve help g...

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A close call on the farm

I always believe that God is watching over us. This last week was a very scary one for our Son, Isaac Reddekopp. I had given Isaac the task of putt...

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Something Special for Fathers Day

With Father’s Day approaching quickly, I hope all of you are planning to do something special for those Dads in your life.June is a big month for m...

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A Rainy New Year

Happy New Year to all of you! We had quite a storm over the It is a dark and rainy morning here. I am welcoming it. It has been dry and this brings...

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Peanut Butter-Chocolate-Oat-Cinnamon-Vanilla Yummies

One of my favorite comforting foods to eat is a bowl of Coaches Oats, laced with cinnamon,dotted with raisins, swirled with peanut butter and toppe...

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Summer Cilantro Salad

Today is the beginning of Summer for us. It always starts with a bang because we have 3 birthdays within a 3 week period (Elliot is 13, Jim turns 5...